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i_love_FFT

@ i_love_FFT @jlai.lu

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  • Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd

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  • Definitely not! It just so happened that in my life experience, I was introduced to socio-constructivism just at the same time that alt-right was beginning to be a thing...

    When professors were telling us "Einstein proved that Newton was wrong" without understanding that relativity reduces to Newtonian mechanics at low speed... It really failed to get me on board.

  • Smells Great

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  • That simply means it must melt below 600°C.

    A quick wiki check says it melts at 660. I guess if you're in a really dark room, you could see the glow.

  • Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd

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  • Considérons that our lungs and intestines are porous on a molecular scale... And also our sweat pores... Plus are blood vessels (connected to previously mentioned holes)…

    Humans have a changing topology depending on the size scale at which you're working.

  • Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd

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  • It's important to make sure our basic definitiins and assumptions are well defined... That being said I've always been pissed at epistomogists that opened the door to crackpots and manipulators to "define their own truth" and invite fascism.

    I'm not saying epistomology is bad, but creating a debate about a well established fact is exactly what right-wing people will do when trying to impose their anti-scientific ideas.

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    Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

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  • Yeah, I'm glad I don't have to make that (voting) choice myself!

    I don't know enough about this guy, but he definitely has a strike. He would need to be otherwise perfect, and to be in the process of having the tattoo removed.

    My main concern is that people can change, and also young people make a lot of really dumb mistakes in order to be accepted by their peers... If they don't have a choice of environment due to poverty or other things outside their control, I wouldn't be surprised to see a good person get involved with criminal gangs.

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    Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

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  • So you believe that IQ (or general intelligence, because IQ is a shot measurement of intelligence) cannot change through a person's life?

    Let's say they changed their sleep habits, started eating healthy, and took time to get deeper cultural knowledge about humanity... Would it be possible?

  • Don't worry, attacking myself

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  • Haha, don't worry I was also joking!

    I have the same trauma where I claim I can do stuff but end up with too many responsibilities.

  • Don't worry, attacking myself

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  • I like skiing and video games. What are my traumas?

  • Prepare to wait in some Alberta municipalities as ballots counted by hand this election

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  • Yup! That's why as soon as the result is within some margin, there is a judicial recounting: they re-count the votes in a much more controlled environment, with 3 person looking at each ballot, and a judge/layer taking notes.

    If you have the opportunity, i encourage you to volunteer to work in your local elections. It's a great way to learn about all the mechanism in place to ensure elections are fair, and to do your part to help!

  • Prepare to wait in some Alberta municipalities as ballots counted by hand this election

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  • I work with software. The last thing I want is for elections to involve commercial software!

  • speak for yourself

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  • Thanks I'll give it a new look!

  • it's that time

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  • Wow, there's still some shelf space left in-between Christmas stuff in your store?

  • speak for yourself

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  • Hehe, true! I left the field about 4 years ago when it became obvious that "more GPUs!" was better than any architectural design changes...

    Most of the image generation made by the products you mention are based on a mix of LLMs (for processing of user inputs) and some other modality for other media types. Last time I checked, ChatGPT was capable of handling images only because it offloaded the image processing to a branch of the architecture that was not a transformer, or at least not a classical transformer. They did have to grift CNN parts to the LLM to make progress.

    Maybe in the last 4 years they reorganised it to completely remove CNN blocks, but I think people call these models "LLMs" only as a shorthand for the core of the architecture.

    Again, you said that a new benchmark is set every few months, but considering they're just consuming more power and water, it's quite boring and I'd argue it's not really progress in the academical/theoretical sense. That attitude is exactly why I don't work with NN anymore.

  • speak for yourself

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  • That's a weird take! It makes much more money sense to sell long term subscriptions treatments, rather than a one time cure.

    /s off course

  • speak for yourself

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  • The main breakthrough of LLM happened when they figured out how to tokenize words... The subsequent transformer architecture was already being tested on various data types and struggled compared to similarly advanced CNN.

    When they figured out word encoding, it created a buzz because transformers could work well with words. They never quite worked as well on images. For that, stable diffusion (a variation on CNN) has always been better.

    It's only because of the buzz on LLMs that they tried applying them to other data types, mostly because that's how they could get funding. By throwing in disproportionate amount of resources, it works... But it would have been so much more efficient to use different architectures.

  • "What's your favorite movies?" "I appear to have forgotten what a movie is"

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  • I take notes just to look professional. Don't try to read my notebook afterwards!

  • I visited the Canadian pavilion at the Osaka Universal Expo 2025!

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  • Haha yes a fellow Canadian! We are all so united by our disdain for eachother, it's heartwarming!

    Nanaimo bars are overhyped. Poutine is the shit!

  • I visited the Canadian pavilion at the Osaka Universal Expo 2025!

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  • You mean St. Hubert?

  • I visited the Canadian pavilion at the Osaka Universal Expo 2025!

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  • What baffles me is that throughout every fashion trends, this jacket is always popular!